AI Fraud Hits $442B as Voice Clones Fool Experts
Global AI-enabled fraud reached an estimated $442 billion last year, with voice cloning attacks now sophisticated enough to deceive trained experts and security systems alike.
EU Releases AI Content Labelling Playbook for AI Act
The EU has published guidance on labelling AI-generated content ahead of the AI Act's August deadline, setting transparency rules that will shape how deepfakes and synthetic media are disclosed across the bloc.
Detecting Hidden AI Text in Parliamentary Records
New research tackles the challenge of identifying undisclosed LLM-generated content in official parliamentary texts, raising the bar for synthetic-text detection in high-stakes civic and governmental settings.
Hany Farid Warns Deepfake Detection Isn't Reliable
Digital forensics pioneer Hany Farid raises concerns about the reliability of automated deepfake detection tools, warning that overconfidence in these systems could undermine trust and create false security in the fight against synthetic media.
Reality Defender Expands Deepfake Defense via AWS, ZeroFox
Reality Defender is deepening its enterprise deepfake detection strategy with new partnerships across AWS and ZeroFox, anchored by an ethics-first approach to synthetic media defense as real-time fraud threats accelerate.
AI Filmmaking at Tribeca Moves Beyond Vanilla Prompts
Tribeca 2026's AI-generated shorts show that the future of synthetic filmmaking lies in hybrid, multi-tool workflows—not naive prompting of vanilla gen AI models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI.
Build a Local AI Voice Cloning Studio in Telegram
A hands-on guide to turning Telegram into a private, local AI voice studio—combining text-to-speech and voice cloning models that run on your own hardware, no cloud APIs required.
Real-Time Deepfake Fraud: 10 Platforms Powering It
Deepfake fraud has crossed a dangerous threshold: it now happens live, during video calls and verification checks. A new wave of platforms enables real-time face and voice swapping, reshaping the fraud landscape and challenging digital identity verification.
AI Generates Explainer Videos from Scientific Figures
A new research approach generates narrated explainer videos directly from scientific paper figures, grounding the synthesized content in source documents to help audiences understand complex visualizations through AI video.
Run Multimodal AI in the Browser with Transformers.js
A hands-on look at building browser-based multimodal AI with Transformers.js—running image captioning and speech recognition entirely client-side with no server or API calls required.
Deepfake Borrowers Threaten Automated Bank Lending
Banks racing toward fully automated lending are now confronting AI-generated synthetic borrowers—deepfaked faces, voices, and documents—that can pass identity checks and secure loans, forcing a rethink of digital authenticity defenses.
Warner Music Acquires Sureel AI for Content Attribution
Warner Music Group is acquiring Sureel AI, a startup building attribution and consent technology that tracks how AI models use copyrighted creative works—a strategic move in the fight over synthetic media and AI training data.